Cassel v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Franklin County of the offense of being an accomplice to the crime of arson, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

It appears in the record without dispute that on the night of July 19th, 1921, a store house belonging to J. M. Dupree and others and occupied by appellant as a place of business, was set on fire be Ferman Sharber, who was caught in the act. Sharber testified for the State herein claiming that he set this fire and another which occurred some weeks earlier at the instigation and upon employment…